Nadeau, Maurice. The history of surrealism. New York : MacMillan, 1965, 1989.
Translated by Richard Howard and with an introduction by Roger Shattuck.
Includes "famous manifestos and documents" reprinted as an appendix to the text, "an unsystematic bibliography" of Surrealist works, and a list of Surrealist periodicals, manifestos, tracts, etc.

Perec, Georges. A void. London : Harvill Press, 1994, 1995.
Translated by Gilbert Adair.
A story of some 200 pages, told without the use of the letter "e." Originally published in French as La disparition (Paris : Denoël ; les Lettres nouvelle ; Gallimard, 1969, 1979, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998).